Kuroyuri

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Description

The town included canals, stores, a marketplace and a large cherry blossom tree.

History

It was the hometown of Lie Ren and where he first met Nora Valkyrie, who was a homeless child back then. Kuroyuri was destroyed after a group of Grimm attacked the village, the Nuckelavee among them. Ren's parents, Li Ren and An Ren, were killed during the attack.

Years later, Ruby Rose and Jaune Arc carry a debilitated Qrow Branwen into the town in search of medicine to heal him, only to find it completely abandoned and empty. Ren and Nora had previously split with the group in order to avoid visiting the village. At some point, the Nuckelavee resided in a cave overlooking the village, and at the end of the episode "Kuroyuri", it is seen heading toward the village.

In "No Safe Haven", Team RNJR fight and defeat the Nuckelavee there. Later in the same episode, Yang Xiao Long is seen at a fork in the road with her motorcycle. There is a sign pointing to Kuroyuri, but someone has painted the word "bandits" over the village's name.

The symbol of Kuroyuri

Trivia

Nora Valkyrie and Lie Ren are the only known survivors of the Grimm's attack.

"Kuroyuri" is the Romanized spelling of the Japanese name for Fritillaria camschatcensis. It means "love" or "curse" in the Japanese language of flowers.[1]

It also directly translates to black lily,[2] which is the town's symbol.